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Now just waiting for subs. BTW, thanks to EveTaku for picking this up. Quality subs within 24 hours of airing is no small feat. Hope you guys consider more of the same for the future *hint*hint*nudge*nudge*

Oh yeah, I forgot about him completely lol. I was still on cloud nine after the episode.

AKB0048 General Election sounds interesting. I'm little worried about the character development though. Most of these characters are already pretty well developed so the psychological drama might not be as interesting as in the first series. We'll see.

On another note, when Chieri called Kanata captain I was grinning like an idiot. Chieri and Kanata for next Yuuko and Takamina!!

AKB0048 General Election sounds interesting. I'm little worried about the character development though. Most of these characters are already pretty well developed so the psychological drama might not be as interesting as in the first series. We'll see.

Well, I think the development in the series works for what they're going for. The election isn't going to be about which girl is #1, but rather who takes over as the 14th generation Atsuko Maeda. It could be very interesting! (Or really stupid!) Lol.

If it's about the next Acchan they can end the series in episode 1 since it's painfully obvious it's Nagisa.

I really hope they have a little more (or a lot more) than this.

I agree, it's pretty obvious (unless they want to have some lame SHOCK plot twist for the sake of it), and they should get it over with. I'm more interested in the Sensei-Sensei mystery and how it ties with the original AKB48 members.

As long as there's a season 2, it's all good. I won't know what happens in this episode until a translated version comes out (and I have time to watch it), but there's no way at all they could have wrapped up everything and still managed a good episode. Since folks say the episode was good, that means there are still some mysteries left to uncover.

More than mysteries, I'd like the second season to bring Chieri's parents into the picture. To begin with I find it hard to believe her dad wouldn't send a direct attack on Akibastar to retrieve his daughter. I want Chieri to confront her parents like Nagisa did hers.

And yeah, the Center Nova and all that... honestly I don't really care that much about this anymore.

The final episode... definitely was like a final episode, and in that meaning, it did a really good job, using both the OP and ED. However, it was also considerably chaos, with so many mysterious things occurring one after another that left the viewers behind. But, because there seems to be a second season, they do have time to explain everything, which would be excellent if they did. Of course, it is already guessable on various mysteries, but in the end, the official source has to reveal it.
But putting that aside, a great last episode. Takamina didn't die in the end and actually got saved!

And in general, it was a great anime. Loved it so much. To think an anime based off the famous AKB which was infamous for greedy marketing that put even Bandai Namco to shame would turn out to be more interesting than almost any other anime that aired with it.
However, while the general story is interesting, it also requires quite a bit of...
stretching? to accept some developments, mainly because of the utter uselessness of the Death Army. How freakin' weak can a large army get...
Other than that, it was fine. Stood out in a good way from the rest of the anime.
The Idol + Army kind of felt like oil and water though, which kind of made it hard to understand/accept, but well, it was an interesting anime, so forgivable and forgettable.

Also, the use of AKB as voice actors for the newbies while veteran voice actors for the veterans was pretty interesting too. It also kind of makes sense, strangely, and because it wasn't just one random poor voice actor in a midst of skilled ones like other anime usually do, but grouped for a reason, the poor voice acting of the AKB didn't stand out that much in a bad way.
Rather, I thought it was kind of interesting to see them get better as the series went on. Chieri's was especially good, though Linda's voice actor seems to have trouble with the "s" sounds.

Another thing that stood out was the use of CG... which was a bit.............
especially when they swapped back and forth from CG to normal 2D anime.
I do feel the CG got better as it went, especially the final episode, but I'd prefer just normal 2D anime dancing over CG.
I guess the goal for CG is Precure?

All (some) things said, great anime and if that last thing really is a 2nd season and I hope so, I hope they can solve every mystery and give this anime true closure. If they can, then awesomely awesome. If not...... We'll see.

10/10

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If fans don't like them, they wouldn't be willing to support them :P
Beside I consider their marketing genius to actually turn an underground group no one know, with only 8 people in the audience at their first show into a money printing machine.
Beside, that management donated over 15 million USD and 30 buses for tsunami victims, and AKB girls still do visits every month to perform concerts, their recent single sales was partly donated to charity too. At least they gave back

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About Center Nova, all the understudies are Center Nova. I understand why Miichan freak out when she is a Center Nova, you basically get send to I dol Heaven and meet the original members.

Kinda lame to be an idol just to disappear like that tho.......
I guess it's for the better goods or w/e.

But for some reason the new trainees nullified the effect of being center...maybe this is like related to team works? lol.

Perhaps, but Kawamori decided the series shouldn't try to follow more recent "Action Idol" series' footsteps. Its better that way, the whole "Crying Trainees scene" made me thought something bad was going to happen. But this series is pretty by the numbers. Very simple and a heartfelt letter to AKB48 above all else.

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On the greedy marketing thing, that was more of Anti-talk than anything. AKB's way of selling CD, is now pretty much the standard. Besides, looking from an subjective view, while you can way taht having different C/W songs in different edition is under-handed tactic to get fans buy multiple copies. It is also a fact that for the same amount of money, an AKB or 48-group singles CD gives you more value for the money than other artist's single.

For an AKB CD, you not only get the CD, but a DVD with MV on them as well as various bonus footage like behind-the-scene, comedy sketches, etc. In addition, there are tickets for handshake event, 3.5x5 member photo, votes for election and AX100 concerts. That's not counting the shop specific goodies you get. They also discounted regular edition have just the CD, thus makes it cheaper then other artist's single.

In essence, all they did was taking the Limited Edition concept that you often see in videogames and manga and applied it to music industry. It's hardly anything new, but probably helped due to it's Akihabara root. I mean, really, a lot of its current marketing direction were the result of the meetings the management had with its core fans (mostly otakus at time) during the earliest stage of AKB's existence.

As for there music, the win Japan Music Record, and runner up before that is acknowledgement enough even if I personally think the group have many other songs that were better and Fly Get or even Beginner.